From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Dec 27 00:47:19 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id AAA10576 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 00:47:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id AAA10569 for ; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 00:47:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vdXwe-000QYtC; Fri, 27 Dec 96 09:47 MET Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.de (8.8.4/8.6.12) id JAA03088; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 09:35:02 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Message-Id: <199612270835.JAA03088@freebie.lemis.de> Subject: Re: good way to add disks? In-Reply-To: <199612182231.XAA24183@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Dec 18, 96 11:31:05 pm" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 09:35:01 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org (FreeBSD SCSI Mailing List) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch writes: > As Richard Tobin wrote: > >> You should be able to do a dump onto the raw disk device, without even >> making a file system on it. > > Not if you think of `dump' in terms of dump(8)/restore(8). Only if > you think of `dump' in terms of dd(1) -- but who would be willing to > do this these days? I, for one. As long as you don't change your disk geometry, it works fine, and it's faster than any file-system related method. There's only one problem: it doesn't work. To be more specific, it didn't work for me last year when using pre-release 2.1. There was some problem about the device protecting itself, and I never resolved it. Possibly I just used the wrong device. It worked fine on BSD/OS once you disabled the label overwrite protection code. Greg